Tech
In 2014, Facebook bought this virtual reality company, famous for its Rift headset.
What is Oculus?
This animated show, debuting in 2011, starred a 12-year-old secret agent who fought villains like Dr. Drakken’s daughter Shego.
What is Kim Possible
This 2017 Jordan Peele horror film used the phrase “sunken place” to describe a hypnotized mental state.
What is Get Out?
In 2011, a series of protests across the Arab world, calling for democracy and reforms, became known collectively as this.
What is the Arab Spring?
In 2015, this esports game by Blizzard became a global sensation, featuring heroes like Tracer and Reinhardt.
What is Overwatch?
Launched in 2010, this service from Apple replaced MobileMe and allowed users to store photos, music, and files in the cloud.
What is iCloud?
This Nickelodeon series, debuting in 2012, introduced Katara and Aang’s children while focusing on a new Avatar.
What is The Legend of Korra?
This 2010 Danish thriller, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, stars Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
What is Drive?
This 2016 referendum resulted in the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union.
What is Brexit?
What is the character limit on Twitter?
What is 140 characters?
This short-form video app, launched in China in 2016 and internationally in 2017, became one of the decade’s most downloaded apps.
What is TikTok?
This show, set in Beach City, centered on the Crystal Gems—Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and a half-human boy.
What is Steven Universe?
This 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu film, shot to appear as one continuous take, starred Michael Keaton as a washed-up superhero actor.
What is Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)?
In 2011, this long-time Libyan leader was overthrown and killed during the civil conflict in his country.
Who is Muammar Gaddafi?
Who was the 2016 Superbowl Half-time performer?
Who is Beyoncé?
Google unveiled this wearable device in 2013, featuring a head-mounted display and voice commands—but it never caught on with consumers.
What is Google Glass?
This Cartoon Network miniseries from 2014 followed brothers Wirt and Greg as they wandered a mysterious forest called The Unknown.
What is Over the Garden Wall?
In 2019, this South Korean dark comedy-thriller made history by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This massive leak in 2010 revealed thousands of classified US diplomatic cables and caused a global political stir.
What is WikiLeaks?
In 2017, this hurricane became one of the costliest in U.S. history, devastating Puerto Rico and parts of Florida and Texas.
What is Hurricane Maria?
In 2018, this privacy scandal revealed that the data of millions of Facebook users had been improperly harvested for political advertising.
What is Cambridge Analytica?
Premiering in 2000 and running into the early 2000s, this animated series followed Virgil Hawkins, a teenager who gains electromagnetic powers after exposure to a chemical gas.
What is Static Shock?
This 2016 historical black comedy by Yorgos Lanthimos stars Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz, focusing on a British king’s rise to power.
What is The Favourite?
This 2011 military operation led to the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
What is Operation Neptune Spear?
This South Korean tech company released the Galaxy Note 7 in 2016, which became infamous for spontaneously catching fire.
What is Samsung?